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> The reason drugs are cheaper in Canada and Europe is because of the massive negotiating power of a single buyer Very few countries have single purchasers for
by chimeracoder 7y ago
> The reason drugs are cheaper in Canada and Europe is because of the massive negotiating power of a single buyer
Very few countries have single purchasers for pharmaceuticals.
- Broken_Hippo 7y agoNo, but the pharmacies hold only a little bit of power over that stuff. If the single payer health plan won't cover x medicine because y is cheaper and just as effective, x is rarely going to be ordered. X being an equal price to y means x might be some doctor's first line treatment.
- chimeracoder 7y ago> No, but the pharmacies hold only a little bit of power over that stuff. We're not talking about pharmacies; they don't enter the picture here at all. > If the single payer health plan Again, almost no country uses a single-payer health plan for pharmaceuticals, so this is isn't relevant.